turkey vulture, turkey buzzard (Cathartes aura)

Query: Old world vulture

Result: 58^th of 215

Subject:	turkey vulture, turkey buzzard (Cathartes aura)
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Description
Catharista aura
Date 1700-1880
Source/Photographer Iconographia Zoologica
Old Latin name Catharista aura
New Latin name Cathartes aura
Common name Nederlands: Kalkoengier
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Catharista_aura_-_1700-1880_-_Print_-_Iconographia_Zoologica_-_Special_Collections_University_of_Amsterdam_-_UBA01_IZ18100128.tif

The turkey vulture (Cathartes aura), also known in some North American regions as the turkey buzzard (or just buzzard), and in some areas of the Caribbean as the John crow or carrion crow, is the most widespread of the New World vultures.

Old world vulture
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